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Anonymous Was A Woman with Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards is a conversation on books by, and about, women. Join our discussion using hashtag #AnonymousWasAWomanPod, and don't forget to foll...

Astrid Edwards interviews Samah Sabawi about her memoir Cactus Pear For My Beloved which is shortlisted for the 2025 Stella Prize. Become an...

Astrid Edwards interviews Melanie Cheng about her novel The Burrow , which is shortlisted for the 2025 Stella Prize. Become an FW member to...

Astrid Edwards interviews Amy McQuire about Black Witness: The Power of Indigenous Media , which is shortlisted for the 2025 Stella Prize. B...

Astrid Edwards interviews Jumaana Abdu about Translations , which is shortlisted for the 2025 Stella Prize. Become an FW member to join the...

Astrid Edwards interviews Santilla Chingaipe about Black Convicts: How Slavery Shaped Australia , which is shortlisted for the 2025 Stella P...

Astrid Edwards interviews Michelle de Kretser about Theory & Practice , which is shortlisted for the 2025 Stella Prize. Become an FW member...

We are back! Jamila Rizvi introduces a special Stella Season of Anonymous Was A Woman. Astrid Edwards, FW book nerd and Chair of Judges for...

Aja Barber has pledged to never take a dollar from fast fashion, and in her 2021 book 'Consumed' she explains why. She is passionate about r...

This week Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are joined by Future Women's Bojana Kos. Chapter 1: Jamila asks whether or not books can help driv...

Lisa Millar is the co-host of ABC TV's News Breakfast, and 'Daring to Fly' is her memoir about conquering fear and finding joy. Lisa returne...

This week Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are joined by Future Women's Ella Jackson. Chapter 1: Jamila, Astrid and Ella consider the differe...

Mark Humphries is the resident satirist on ABC-TV's 7.30, and he recently published 'On Politics and Stuff' with Evan Williams. In this inte...

This week Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are bring their favourites to the table, and they are joined by Future Women favourite Madison How...

Annika Smethurst is the state political editor at The Age newspaper in Melbourne. She is a double Walkley Award winner and has two Melbourne...

Once again, Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards consider the world through the lens of reading and books. Chapter 1: So, what is politics and wh...

Mark Brandi is an award-winning writer of literary crime. His stories tend to focus on the darkness in the world as experienced from young o...

Jamila Rizvi is back! We have missed her, and from this week Jamila is back leading our discussion of all things books. Chapter 1: As they s...

The Melbourne Writers Festival was curtailed in September 2021 because of the pandemic, so Jamila Rizvi and Astrid spoke to two of the autho...

Helen McCabe once again joins Astrid Edwards on Anonymous Was A Woman. Tis week they agree and love two wonderful debut works of fiction (un...

Grace Jennings-Edquist is a journalist at the ABC, where she writes articles on issues including gender equality and wellbeing. 'The Yes Wom...

Helen McCabe once again joins Astrid Edwards on Anonymous Was A Woman to discuss equality and equity, and of course, the latest in fiction a...

Danielle Binks is a writer, reviewer and literary agent. This year she released ' The Monster of Her Age', her debut YA novel. The Year the...

Season 5 of Anonymous Was A Woman starts today. To kick off the season, Helen McCabe joins Astrid Edwards (we promise, Jamila Rizvi will be...

Join journalist and presenter, Leila McKinnon, as she chats to inspirational women who are living their lives, their way. Find out what driv...

As we wait for Season 5 we are bringing back our highest rating episodes. This interview with Louise Milligan was originally released on 5 F...

As we wait for Season 5 we are bringing back our highest rating episodes. This interview with Min Jin Lee was originally released on 15 June...

As we wait for Season 5 we are bringing back our highest rating episodes. This interview with Tara June Winch was originally released on 20...

As we wait for Season 5 we are bringing back our highest rating episodes. This interview with Brit Bennett was originally released on 4 Febr...

Dr Norman Swan was one of the first medically qualified journalists in Australia, with a broadcast career spanning more than 30 years. He ho...

Chapter 1: What will happen tomorrow? How do writers explore what may come through both fiction and non-fiction? Chapter 2: Jamila explores...

Bri Lee is an author and freelance writer. Her first book, Eggshell Skull , won Biography of the Year at the ABIA Awards, the People's Choic...

Chapter 1: Changing things up this week, Jamila and Astrid throw the idea of a weekly theme away and talk about the novels they feel like. T...

Maria Lewis is an author, screenwriter and film curator, and she knows everything about women and representation in fantasy. Her best-sellin...

Chapter 1: Many of the highest-selling novels of all time are fantasy. So, why is fantasy so popular? Who is reading it? And who is writing...

Michael Mohammed Ahmad is the founding director of Sweatshop Literacy Movement. His debut novel, ' The Tribe' , won the 2015 Sydney Morning...

Chapter 1: What is heartbreak? When have you felt it and where do you turn when you are heartbroken? Chapter 2: Jamila recommends ' Heart Si...

Kavita Bedford is an Australian-Indian writer with a background in journalism and anthropology. Her first novel ' Friends and Dark Shapes' w...

Chapter 1: Literature used to equate adulthood with parenthood, as did society. But what counts as 'growing up' these days? Is literature ch...

Jessica Townsend is the ridiculously talented author behind the middle grade fantasy series ' The Chronicles of Morrigan Crow'. The series b...

Chapter 1: Jamila and Astrid dive into the books that first made them feel 'grown up' and the ones that represented their shifts into adulth...

Dr Anita Heiss is an award-winning author of non-fiction, historical fiction, commercial women's fiction, children's novels and blogs. Her l...

Chapter 1: Jamila and Astrid consider why the past still matters, and why women and girls are all too often left out of the history books wr...

Kate Ellis represented Adelaide in the Australian House of Representatives for Labor from 2004 until 2019. In the timely 'Sex, Lies and Ques...

Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are back for the fourth season of Anonymous Was a Woman . Chapter 1: Changing it up, Jamila and Astrid explo...

Anonymous Was A Woman with Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards is a conversation on books by, and about, women. Season 4 will start on Monday 31...

Glyn Davis AC is CEO of the Paul Ramsay Foundation, which works to end intergenerational poverty. He was previously Vice Chancellor of the U...

Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are back for the third season of Anonymous of a Woman. Chapter 1: Jamila and Astrid consider what freedom me...

Sarah Krasnostein is the best-selling author of The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay and Disaster, as well as...

Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are back for the third season of Anonymous of a Woman. Chapter 1: After weeks considering the harder topics,...

Nadia Owusu is a Brooklyn-based writer and memoirist. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times , the Washington Post's The Lily , Lite...